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Cutie and the Boxer
The SpiriT of ’45
Sat 8 Jun 2:30 PM StatE
Mon 10 Jun 4:45 PM CREMoRnE
WEd 12 Jun 10:00 aM EV4
UK|2013|94mins|InEnglish
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Ken Loach | Producers: Rebecca O’Brien, Kate Ogborn, Lisa Marie
Russo | Distributor: Rialto Distribution
Veteran UK director Ken Loach has been an SFF audience
favourite for years, from Kes (1969) to The Wind That
Shakes the Barley (2006) and The Angels’ Share (2012).
His features usually contain at least one warm-hearted left-
leaning character, and his latest film, a documentary, is no
different. Loach is undoubtedly a filmmaker who wears his
heart and his politics on his sleeve. The spirit of ’45 refers
to that heady period immediately after World War II, when
there was dancing in the streets of England and hope for a
brighter future. Overcrowded housing, poor working
conditions, and limited health care would all be banished.
Archival footage and interviews with the workers who voted
for this brave new world conjure a vision of a tomorrow full
of possibility. As Andrew Pulver comments in the Guardian:
“Films are rarely this committed or, indeed, persuasive.”
The SummiT
Mon 10 Jun 9:30 aM StatE
Sat 15 Jun 2:45 PM EV9
Ireland, UK, Switzerland | 2012 | 104 mins | In English
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director, Producer: Nick Ryan | Screenwriter: Mark Monroe | Distributor:
Madman Entertainment
The second-highest peak on earth, K2, on the border of
China and Pakistan, is known as the Savage Mountain.
In August 2008, it lived up to its brutal reputation when
11 climbers died in a 48-hour period. Oxygen-deprived
mountaineers, exhausted and confused, scattered across
the summit: it’s hardly surprising that what really happened
has remained a mystery, even to those on the mountain
that day. Director Nick Ryan and editor Ben Stark (winner of
the Editing Award for World Documentary at Sundance this
year) expertly weave interviews with the survivors with
dramatic re-enactments and actual footage. Perhaps within
this complex mesh the truth can finally be found. The
unbelievably beautiful mountain scenery, combined with all
the tension and drama of a Bond movie and the very real
emotion of the subjects, make this powerful documentary a
not-to-be-missed big-screen experience.
We STeal SecreTS: The
STory of WikileakS
WEd 12 Jun 7:00 PM EV4
Sat 15 Jun 9:30 aM StatE
USA | 2013 | 130 mins | In English
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Alex Gibney | Producers: Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger, Alexis Bloom |
Distributor: Universal Pictures International Australasia
Director and producer Alex Gibney has successfully tackled
some of the hottest topics of recent times. Among his
targets have been corporate fraud (Enron: The Smartest
Guys in the Room, SFF 2005), the US Army and torture
(Academy Award® winner Taxi to the Dark Side,SFF 2008)
and child abuse in the Catholic Church (Mea Maxima
Culpa: Silence in the House of God ). In his latest film,
Gibney comes to grips with Wikileaks, but the focus goes
way beyond Julian Assange and the mountains of material
he made public. It’s about the inner workings of the
organisation itself and its global impact. It’s also about a
cast of characters including tech geek Bradley Manning
(the US soldier who leaked classified documents) and
Adrian Lamo, the man who betrayed him. Gibney’s
absorbing doco is packed with interviews and clips and
smartly edited by Andy Grieve.
Which Way iS The fronT line
from here? The life and Time
of Tim heTheringTon
Sat 8 Jun 6:45 PM EV8
Sat 15 Jun 12:10 PM EV4
USA | 2012 | 79 mins | In English
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Sebastian Junger | Producers: Nick Quested, James Brabazon |
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Restrepo (SFF 2010), co-directed by Tim Hetherington
and Sebastian Junger, won the Grand Jury Prize for
Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. This potent
film following a year with a platoon of US soldiers in
northeast Afghanistan was also nominated for an Oscar®.
Tragically photojournalist Hetherington was killed while
reporting on the war in Libya just a year after his Academy
appearance. In this film, Junger uses a wealth of footage
and photographs to explore his late partner’s ideas about
image-making and reportage. Tim began his career
documenting the civil war in Liberia, and then staying on to
follow the peace process. As demonstrated in Restrepo,
one of Hetherington’s key themes was the relationship that
men have with war and the bonds they make during
conflict. This film is a celebration of Tim’s remarkable spirit
and his persuasive images, and a touching tribute from a
friend and colleague.
William and The Windmill
Sat 8 Jun 10:00 aM StatE
Mon 10 Jun 4:00 PM doQ3
USA, Malawi, South Africa | 2013 | 96 mins | In English and
Chichewa with English subtitles
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director, Producer: Ben Nabors | Production Company: Moving Windmills
Project
William was 14 when he set out to build a windmill, using
bits of bicycles, scraps of wood, perhaps a flip-flop or two,
with only a battered library book as his guide. His windmill
successfully generated power for his impoverished
Malawian family, which in itself is pretty extraordinary, but
that’s one small part of this story. His achievement
attracted considerable attention, and he was invited to
speak at a TEDGlobal conference. The hit of the show, he
was taken under the wing of an American entrepreneur
and flown to New York. What followed was a whirlwind of
radio and television interviews, book offers, parties, and
more. How would a young man from Malawi cope with this
full-on experience, so far from family and home? This
inspiring story, crafted with much affection, won the
Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award at the recent
SXSW film festival.
William yang: my
generaTion
Sat 8 Jun 7:00 PM doQ2
Australia | 2013 | 57 mins | In English
WoRld PREMiERE
Director: Martin Fox | Screenwriter: William Yang | Producer: Donna Chang |
Production Company: Felix Media
Sydney photographer William Yang is well known for his live
‘slideshow performances’, subverting a format more often
encountered in lounge rooms, boardrooms or lecture halls. He
uses them to tell stories of his friendships with creatives such
as Brett Whiteley, author Patrick White, director Jim Sharman
and fashion designers Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee. Yang’s
presentation has now been adapted for the moving screen,
and with his trademark frank, deadpan style he takes us on a
journey through Sydney’s emerging artistic, literary, theatrical
and queer circles in the 1970s and ’80s. Always in the action,
lens at the ready, Wang deftly manages to be both observer
and participant. Nothing is out of bounds or escapes his
finely-honed gaze in this decadent and colourful era of
drug-fuelled parties, outrageous fashion, the AIDs crisis, and a
bursting-out-of-the gate sense of liberation.
SFF, in partnership with ABC TV Arts, presents William Yang: My
Generation at 7pm on Saturday 8 June at Dendy Opera Quays;
followed by William Yang: In Conversation at the MCA, hosted
by Vivid Ideas. The film will also be broadcast at 10:30pm on
Sunday 16 June on ABC1’s Sunday Arts Up Late.
Filmmaker guests: William Yang, Donna Chang, Martin Fox,
Bridget Ikin
The SpiriT of ’45
Sat 8 Jun 2:30 PM StatE
Mon 10 Jun 4:45 PM CREMoRnE
WEd 12 Jun 10:00 aM EV4
UK|2013|94mins|InEnglish
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Ken Loach | Producers: Rebecca O’Brien, Kate Ogborn, Lisa Marie
Russo | Distributor: Rialto Distribution
Veteran UK director Ken Loach has been an SFF audience
favourite for years, from Kes (1969) to The Wind That
Shakes the Barley (2006) and The Angels’ Share (2012).
His features usually contain at least one warm-hearted left-
leaning character, and his latest film, a documentary, is no
different. Loach is undoubtedly a filmmaker who wears his
heart and his politics on his sleeve. The spirit of ’45 refers
to that heady period immediately after World War II, when
there was dancing in the streets of England and hope for a
brighter future. Overcrowded housing, poor working
conditions, and limited health care would all be banished.
Archival footage and interviews with the workers who voted
for this brave new world conjure a vision of a tomorrow full
of possibility. As Andrew Pulver comments in the Guardian:
“Films are rarely this committed or, indeed, persuasive.”
The SummiT
Mon 10 Jun 9:30 aM StatE
Sat 15 Jun 2:45 PM EV9
Ireland, UK, Switzerland | 2012 | 104 mins | In English
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director, Producer: Nick Ryan | Screenwriter: Mark Monroe | Distributor:
Madman Entertainment
The second-highest peak on earth, K2, on the border of
China and Pakistan, is known as the Savage Mountain.
In August 2008, it lived up to its brutal reputation when
11 climbers died in a 48-hour period. Oxygen-deprived
mountaineers, exhausted and confused, scattered across
the summit: it’s hardly surprising that what really happened
has remained a mystery, even to those on the mountain
that day. Director Nick Ryan and editor Ben Stark (winner of
the Editing Award for World Documentary at Sundance this
year) expertly weave interviews with the survivors with
dramatic re-enactments and actual footage. Perhaps within
this complex mesh the truth can finally be found. The
unbelievably beautiful mountain scenery, combined with all
the tension and drama of a Bond movie and the very real
emotion of the subjects, make this powerful documentary a
not-to-be-missed big-screen experience.
We STeal SecreTS: The
STory of WikileakS
WEd 12 Jun 7:00 PM EV4
Sat 15 Jun 9:30 aM StatE
USA | 2013 | 130 mins | In English
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Alex Gibney | Producers: Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger, Alexis Bloom |
Distributor: Universal Pictures International Australasia
Director and producer Alex Gibney has successfully tackled
some of the hottest topics of recent times. Among his
targets have been corporate fraud (Enron: The Smartest
Guys in the Room, SFF 2005), the US Army and torture
(Academy Award® winner Taxi to the Dark Side,SFF 2008)
and child abuse in the Catholic Church (Mea Maxima
Culpa: Silence in the House of God ). In his latest film,
Gibney comes to grips with Wikileaks, but the focus goes
way beyond Julian Assange and the mountains of material
he made public. It’s about the inner workings of the
organisation itself and its global impact. It’s also about a
cast of characters including tech geek Bradley Manning
(the US soldier who leaked classified documents) and
Adrian Lamo, the man who betrayed him. Gibney’s
absorbing doco is packed with interviews and clips and
smartly edited by Andy Grieve.
Which Way iS The fronT line
from here? The life and Time
of Tim heTheringTon
Sat 8 Jun 6:45 PM EV8
Sat 15 Jun 12:10 PM EV4
USA | 2012 | 79 mins | In English
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director: Sebastian Junger | Producers: Nick Quested, James Brabazon |
Distributor: Madman Entertainment
Restrepo (SFF 2010), co-directed by Tim Hetherington
and Sebastian Junger, won the Grand Jury Prize for
Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. This potent
film following a year with a platoon of US soldiers in
northeast Afghanistan was also nominated for an Oscar®.
Tragically photojournalist Hetherington was killed while
reporting on the war in Libya just a year after his Academy
appearance. In this film, Junger uses a wealth of footage
and photographs to explore his late partner’s ideas about
image-making and reportage. Tim began his career
documenting the civil war in Liberia, and then staying on to
follow the peace process. As demonstrated in Restrepo,
one of Hetherington’s key themes was the relationship that
men have with war and the bonds they make during
conflict. This film is a celebration of Tim’s remarkable spirit
and his persuasive images, and a touching tribute from a
friend and colleague.
William and The Windmill
Sat 8 Jun 10:00 aM StatE
Mon 10 Jun 4:00 PM doQ3
USA, Malawi, South Africa | 2013 | 96 mins | In English and
Chichewa with English subtitles
auStRalian PREMiERE
Director, Producer: Ben Nabors | Production Company: Moving Windmills
Project
William was 14 when he set out to build a windmill, using
bits of bicycles, scraps of wood, perhaps a flip-flop or two,
with only a battered library book as his guide. His windmill
successfully generated power for his impoverished
Malawian family, which in itself is pretty extraordinary, but
that’s one small part of this story. His achievement
attracted considerable attention, and he was invited to
speak at a TEDGlobal conference. The hit of the show, he
was taken under the wing of an American entrepreneur
and flown to New York. What followed was a whirlwind of
radio and television interviews, book offers, parties, and
more. How would a young man from Malawi cope with this
full-on experience, so far from family and home? This
inspiring story, crafted with much affection, won the
Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award at the recent
SXSW film festival.
William yang: my
generaTion
Sat 8 Jun 7:00 PM doQ2
Australia | 2013 | 57 mins | In English
WoRld PREMiERE
Director: Martin Fox | Screenwriter: William Yang | Producer: Donna Chang |
Production Company: Felix Media
Sydney photographer William Yang is well known for his live
‘slideshow performances’, subverting a format more often
encountered in lounge rooms, boardrooms or lecture halls. He
uses them to tell stories of his friendships with creatives such
as Brett Whiteley, author Patrick White, director Jim Sharman
and fashion designers Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee. Yang’s
presentation has now been adapted for the moving screen,
and with his trademark frank, deadpan style he takes us on a
journey through Sydney’s emerging artistic, literary, theatrical
and queer circles in the 1970s and ’80s. Always in the action,
lens at the ready, Wang deftly manages to be both observer
and participant. Nothing is out of bounds or escapes his
finely-honed gaze in this decadent and colourful era of
drug-fuelled parties, outrageous fashion, the AIDs crisis, and a
bursting-out-of-the gate sense of liberation.
SFF, in partnership with ABC TV Arts, presents William Yang: My
Generation at 7pm on Saturday 8 June at Dendy Opera Quays;
followed by William Yang: In Conversation at the MCA, hosted
by Vivid Ideas. The film will also be broadcast at 10:30pm on
Sunday 16 June on ABC1’s Sunday Arts Up Late.
Filmmaker guests: William Yang, Donna Chang, Martin Fox,
Bridget Ikin
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES 39
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2013
SFF.ORG.AU